An old cardigan with autumn leaves:)

Today was a fruitful day for me, I did too many tasks. When I was organizing my wardrobe, I found this an old cardigan that I've knitted and embellished long time ago. It is at least 20 years old!!! To find totally forgotten cardigan made me happy, I can wear at home...Its mohair yarn with dark chocolate color still looks pretty. The most important part of the cardigan is embellishments that was my first trial to work with leathers...Isn't so obvious that my crazy world world comes from past. I remeber how I've worked hard to sew all those leather autumn leaves and to cover their borders with trims.

Here is a close-up for one motif, isn't is nice with nice color combo? But, I still remember my struggle to sew beads and buggles on the leather to form those autumn leaves...

Its back side also has motifs...

I wish I could have same patience and enthuisiam to create same kind of things again. Time to time to find these kind of my old work force me to realize to work hard once again. I was full time working mother and doing these kind of things:)) I plan to active as much as I can on next year, I promise to share new lovely things with you:))

RR block

I'm so quiet for blogging. It is so hot here in Istanbul. I don't have enough energy to stitch and being creative. However, I enjoyed so much to work on a RR block. I've explained the rules of this RR in my previous posts. As being third person to work on this RR my responsibility was to do motifs, embroidery without too much additional decoration. The next person will add beads, buttons, charms etc....I envy her job on this lovely block!!!!:))

Now, let me start to tell you what I did. Melodie's block theme is "Grandfather's Garden". Can you think a grandpa's garden without bird house? I did a bird house with little flowers its underneath.

I embroidered this little bird with blue tones of the silk floss. I thought it should be well looking under the Maureen's beautiful Forget me knots. The seam treatment at top looks so pretty, isn't it?

I wanted to create something like a rose garden on this green part of the block which is the center piece. My roses aren't so successful, the fabric was a little bit tough for the SRE, I couldn't pull the needle easily. My tendinitis problem at right hand still exists. However, I think this part looks fine, what do you think? At last, I added a lace dragon fly, I dyed it with coffee. It should be looking much better with some beads and bugles. I'm sure that Reneta who is the next person to work on this block, she should do wonderful touches.